Thread by @RachelBitecofer

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Appeasement Didn’t Work Then.

It Won’t Work Now.

While he was in prison, the German version of Club Fed, for trying to execute a coup, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf — part autobiography, part revenge manifesto, part how-to guide for dismantling the post–World War I order.

It wasn’t subtle. He said, outright:

“The reunification of German-Austria with the Motherland… must be carried out.”

And he was clear the borders of Germany should expand:

“It is not the preservation of peace, but the expansion of the people’s living space that is the most pressing task of our time.”

That’s “living space” (Lebensraum) — for Germans only — at the expense of anyone already living there. In fact, you may not know this, but once they killed off all the Jews in Eastern Europe their next step was supposed to be turning the death camps onto the rest of Eastern European-another 40 million people who they saw as racially inferior.

In addition to murder camps for Jews, the Nazi’s enslaved over 12 million people from multiple countries.

But in throughout the 1930 and 1932 elections, guess what?

Hitler ran as the “no wars” candidate.

No, really.

(Translation: With Adolf Hitler, Yes for Equality and Peace...)

1933–1934: Churchill Starts Yelling into the Void
On March 14, 1933, Churchill warned the House of Commons: Germany was “arming fast, and no one is doing anything about it.”

By April 13, he was calling out “odious conditions in Germany” and the danger of Nazi persecution spreading. He flagged the Luftwaffe’s buildup — and got labeled a warmonger for his trouble.

Meanwhile, Hitler was giving his own PR campaign:

“Germany will never break the peace… we will never be the aggressor.” (May 1933 speech)

That’s the beauty of it — declare yourself the peaceful party, blame your opponents for “forcing” you into action, and half your audience will believe you.

Dismissed as a ‘warmonger” Churchill had crystal vision. And spent a lot of time ranting about it on the BBC and on the floor of the House of Commons.

1935–1936: The Dagger Pointed at France
March 7, 1936: Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland, breaking the Versailles Treaty.

Churchill:

“The German Army is a dagger pointed at the heart of France.”

Hitler’s spin?

This was “restoring German dignity” and “equal rights” under international law — nothing more. His line that day:

“We have no territorial claims to make in Europe.”

He would repeat that lie like it was on a loop.

1937–1938: Reuniting “Our People”
On October 23, 1937, Churchill warned Britain:

“They would devour Austria and Czechoslovakia…”

In March 1938, Hitler swallowed Austria whole in the Anschluss. He told the cheering crowd:

“Not as tyrants have we come, but as liberators. We are here to reunite the German people.”

It was the perfect sales pitch — cloak a land grab in family reunion language. And it worked, because the West wanted to believe it.

By September 1938, Hitler wanted the Sudetenland — German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia. He claimed he only wanted to protect “his people” from “Czech oppression.”

“I am asking for nothing but peace. I am the last one who wants war.” (September 1938)

The Munich Agreement, in which no Chechs were involved, gave him the Sudetenland without firing a shot. Chamberlain came home waving his “peace for our time” paper. Hitler mocked him days later:

The king of naivety, Neville Chamberlain, claimed by selling out Czechoslovakia he had delivered “peace for our time.”

Not only did Hitler take the Sudetenland Lands for free with no resistance, just 6 months later he moved on the rest of Czechoslovakia.

On October 5, 1938, Churchill told Parliament:

“It is a total and unmitigated defeat.”

1939: Defensive War, Offensive Blitz
By January 1939, Hitler was done pretending:

“We need space to live and breathe… This is our natural right.”

On September 1, announcing the invasion of Poland, Hitler told the Reichstag:

“The Polish state has refused the peaceful settlement I desired… I can no longer find any willingness on the part of Poland to settle this dispute peacefully.”

Translation: They made me do it.

Five weeks later, after crushing Poland, Hitler made a fake peace offer:

“Germany has no further claims to make in Europe.”

Churchill — who had been calling it all for six years — now had believers.

The Hitler Playbook

Write down your plan because apparently no one will take it seriously anyway. (Mein Kampf/Project 2025)

Frame every offensive move against people, institution, and other countries as defense.

Claim you’re the peaceful one defending innocence

Say the other side is forcing you to act.

Wrap expansion in cultural or ethnic “reunion.”

Repeat until everyone’s too tired to object.

2025: The American Remix

Today, Trump runs the same formula. He promises he’s “restoring fairness,” “draining the swamp,” “protecting the Constitution” — while openly describing plans to weaponize the DOJ, purge civil service, crush dissent, and consolidate executive power.

And like Hitler in 1938, he claims the other side is the aggressor:

They’re the real threats to democracy.

They’re coming after you, so I have to stop them.

When he follows through, people will say they never saw it coming.

Final Thought

Churchill’s verdict on appeasement still stands:

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war"

Appeasement is a psychological comfort blanket for people who can’t face the reality head-on. Hitler sold “peace” as he armed for war. Trump sells “patriotism” as he prepares to dismantle democracy.

America must wake up now, before its too late.

By the time Britain turned to “that crazy guy Winston Churchill” all he could over the public in “blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”

We cannot let the same happen here.

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